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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish פּאָגראָם (pogrom), from Russian погро́м (pogróm).

Pronunciation

Noun

pogrom (plural pogroms)

  1. A riot aimed at persecution or massacre of a particular ethnic or religious group, usually Jews.
  2. An antisemitic hate crime with a large death toll, irrespective of the number of perpetrators.
    • 2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ:
      More strikingly, when blood ran on the streets of Pittsburgh after the pogrom at the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018, Trump did not meet with community leaders of the Pittsburgh Jewish community, nor the family members of the dead, nor even the city’s mayor. He spoke with Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States.

Translations

Verb

pogrom (third-person singular simple present pogroms, present participle pogroming, simple past and past participle pogromed)

  1. (transitive) To persecute or massacre a particular group of people.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian погром (pogrom).

Pronunciation

Noun

pogrom c (singular definite pogromen, plural indefinite pogromer)

  1. pogrom

Inflection

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

From Russian погром (pogrom).

Pronunciation

Noun

pogrom m (plural pogroms, diminutive pogrompje n)

  1. pogrom

Further reading

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian погром (pogrom).

Pronunciation

Noun

pogrom m (plural pogroms)

  1. pogrom

Further reading

Hungarian

Etymology

From Russian погро́м (pogróm, pogrom, massacre).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

pogrom (plural pogromok)

  1. pogrom (riot aimed at persecution or massacre of a particular ethnic or religious group, usually Jews)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative pogrom pogromok
accusative pogromot pogromokat
dative pogromnak pogromoknak
instrumental pogrommal pogromokkal
causal-final pogromért pogromokért
translative pogrommá pogromokká
terminative pogromig pogromokig
essive-formal pogromként pogromokként
essive-modal
inessive pogromban pogromokban
superessive pogromon pogromokon
adessive pogromnál pogromoknál
illative pogromba pogromokba
sublative pogromra pogromokra
allative pogromhoz pogromokhoz
elative pogromból pogromokból
delative pogromról pogromokról
ablative pogromtól pogromoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
pogromé pogromoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
pogroméi pogromokéi
Possessive forms of pogrom
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. pogromom pogromjaim
2nd person sing. pogromod pogromjaid
3rd person sing. pogromja pogromjai
1st person plural pogromunk pogromjaink
2nd person plural pogromotok pogromjaitok
3rd person plural pogromjuk pogromjaik

Derived terms

Compound words

References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

  • pogrom in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Polish

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Etymology

Deverbal from pogromić.

Pronunciation

Noun

pogrom m inan

  1. massacre (intentional mass killing)
  2. pogrom (ethnic riot)
  3. (sports) carnage, resounding defeat (great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly)
  4. (education, humorous, slang) exam that turns out to be very hard and which most students fail
    Synonym: rzeź niewiniątek

Declension

Derived terms

adjective
adjective
nouns
verb

Further reading

  • pogrom in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • pogrom in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: po‧grom

Noun

pogrom m (plural pogrons)

  1. pogrom (riot against a particular ethnic or religious group)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian погром (pogrom), from по- (po-) +‎ громи́ть (gromítʹ, to smash, to sack), from гром (grom, roar, thunder), from Proto-Slavic *gromъ (thunder).

Noun

pogrom n (plural pogromuri)

  1. pogrom (riot against a particular ethnic or religious group)

Declension

Swedish

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Etymology

Borrowed from Russian погром (pogrom).

Pronunciation

Noun

pogrom c

  1. pogrom

Declension

References

Turkish

Etymology

From Russian погро́м (pogróm, pogrom, massacre).

Pronunciation

Noun

pogrom (definite accusative pogromu, plural pogromlar)

  1. pogrom

Declension

Inflection
Nominative pogrom
Definite accusative pogromu
Singular Plural
Nominative pogrom pogromlar
Definite accusative pogromu pogromları
Dative pogroma pogromlara
Locative pogromda pogromlarda
Ablative pogromdan pogromlardan
Genitive pogromun pogromların